YMMV / Cyriak

• Creepy Awesome: All of his animation is this. While horrifying and nightmare inducing, it's hard to deny how amazing it is.
• Crosses the Line Twice: "a Christmas message from Cyriak" features Santa being impaled on a Christmas tree. Gorily. Followed by him popping out presents. Then a reindeer falling on him.
• Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory:
  • Someone had suggested that "BeastEnders" was, in fact:
    Clearly a critique of the way the British political system is run.
  • Cyriak himself has parodied it.
    Cyriak: This film [Poo Pants] is at its heart an exploration of both personal and cultural themes, exposing our exploitative relationship with our environment on a personal level and, by extension, as a society or species. The poo in this sense is a symbol of the by-products of our capitalist consumerism, with Alan Titchmarsh reflecting the role of the media; alerting us, ridiculing us, perhaps even judging us - the media becomes a collective conscience that binds us to our own environmental mortality. The refrain of Titchmarsh is answered by our inability as a global society to take a truly global responsibility; as we continue to poo at Paul's we are nevertheless reminded that the poo is in fact very much situated in our own pants. ...And if you made it through that bullshit then your prize is a link to download the poo-pants song.
  • Some took "7 billion" to be analogous to humanity. Cyriak stated that when he first had the idea for the video, there were about 7 billion people in the world, so he wondered what 7 billion of something would look like.
  • In the 2,000,000 subscriber special, DJ Cyriak's Cat repeatedly jokes about the songs he's remixing having deeper meanings to them.
    Deez cowz make u think, th0, rite? Like, maybe we r teh real c0ws... or sumfin i dunno l0l whateva
  • "Circle World" has drawn plenty of analysis from its cyclical nature that raises many questions to what it might symbolize. The first scene revolves around four worlds: one with teddy bears grinding themselves up to make clouds, one that's a city with cars and cats piloting robots made of houses, one that's a meadow populated by sheep-spiders eating flowers and spinning wool webs, and one that's a lab run by teddy bears with a double helix of teddy bear faces and a computer screen. The second part, however, seems to depict a breakdown of this order: the teddy bears have become preoccupied with phones and neglected grinding themselves up, causing the grinder to become stuck, the city is now full of protesters while the cat-house-robots are falling apart, the sheep-spiders are now rummaging through garbage while one sheep ruler hoards the flowers to itself, and finally a giant mutant sheep-spider has invaded the teddy bear lab and is trying to eat the double helix. Discussions have gone around whether this represents the breakdown of society, the entropy of the universe reducing order into chaos, or whether the second sequence was a recursive simulation or a Bad Future.
• Faux Symbolism:
  • Wait, might a Jesus cop and Cathedral and a Mosque kicking each others' asses actually mean something? Nah!
  • One could argue that "The Spirit of Christmas" symbolizes people shoving Christmas down others' throats.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: His videos have made their way onto Nico Nico Douga, where they've become surprisingly popular.
• Growing the Beard: Yellow Bridges is strange but beautiful.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One video on his channel is a recorded news story about him when he first started becoming famous. The reporter declares he has over "200,000" views on YouTube, a ridiculously high number for the relatively small site that YouTube was at The Noughties. In the decades since, viral videos that get on the news tend to have views going into the millions, if not billions.
  • In a very Black Comedy sense, Cyriak once made a video in honour of Queen Elizabeth II, showing her aging to her very dead self. When the Queen died on 8 September 2022, Cyriak commented "lol".
• Nausea Fuel:
  • In "The Spirit of Christmas", Santa's reindeer has a dangling appendage where his nose should be.
  • "MOO!" has the alien robots dismembering the cows they abducted and using their internal organs as musical instruments.
• Nightmare Fuel: Now has its own page.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: In spite of how utterly deranged the animations are, it's impossible to deny how masterfully edited they are, with little to no mistakes made on how the special effects are edited.

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